More Canadians

Just… um… don’t ask…

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)


A mortar section from West Wind Productions (less one chap that I couldn’t locate). How did I end up painting these – one of the least useful things I could have worked on given the current campaign situation!? They’re neither Germans or Russians… and even if I were to suddenly switch to Northwest Europe, mortars just don’t end up on the table all that often!

How did I end up painting these then – when I had a half-painted lot of Japanese and a lot of Soviets also on the table ready to go? I think it worked like this – I was mixing up some base goop to finish off a rebasing project and I always make too much so I generally try to gather up some other figures that have been based and primed but not gooped to have them on hand so no goop goes to waste – since it doesn’t matter if goop goes on before figures are painted… and so after gooping all the soviets and Germans in the “on deck” section I gooped these Canadians. Then they stayed on the workbench overnight and while I was finishing up details on the rebasing project I just sort of grabbed the mortars and knocked them off in a couple minutes… Then I was just sort of like “well, there’s only a couple crew here… they’ll only take a few minutes…” and, lacking regular infantry equipment, they WERE quite quick to paint up…

Then I though; “hey there’s these wounded guys too…”


…and here’s the wounded guys (also from West Wind Productions).

I kind of like these… and like the idea of placing these on the table where troops have fallen instead of just leaving the figures lying over on their side. I was about to nip back over the West Wind’s site and order me up a bunch more (Germans, Americans, Japanese, maybe a COUPLE packs of Russians) while there’s a sale on… but was saddened to discover THE SALE IS OVER… ah well…

Finally, in the realm of slightly more useful in the short term…


A German! This is one of the old Harlequin (now Black Tree Design) lot that I picked up off ebay recently. They really are nice figures.

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Japanese. No, really, they’re almost done. Then some Russians. Then maybe a battle report!!